Old Jarhead's Political SitRep for April 22, 2013

Excerpt: Obama warned,
cautioning against ascribing motivations to "entire groups of
people." (Does this mean that he and Holder and the Southern Poverty Law
Center and the rest of the leftist crowd will stop “ascribing motivations” to
all gun owners, evangelical Christians Tea Party member and bitter clinging
white males? Not likely. ~Bob)

Will the Islamic Terrorist bomber talk?

Everyone is celebrating taking him
alive so he'll tell us what his motives are and if he had any help. As to
motives, you have to be a politically correct idiot (redundant I know) k\not to
recognize Sudden Jihad Syndrome, where a moderate Muslim next door goes Jihad
and starts killing kuffer for Allah. Likely his older brother from reports was
an Islamist long ago, roped him into murder of the innocent. I think he's
likely to talk about Allah and Jihad to justify his crimes, thus bringing
fourth another round of "we can't judge all Muslims." That's true.
But it is also true the rest of us cannot tell when one will go Jihad on us. As
to talking about help, what can we offer him? He knows we won't shoot him or
water board him. What are we going to offer if he talks? Reducing his time from
four consecutive life terms to three? He will know, talk of not, he will never
see daylight again, but that we will feed and care for him and the ACLU will
ensure he can worship his god as he sees fit. Except with more bombs. ~Bob

Quote from Jonah Goldberg

More seriously, my pretty obvious
point ("Do you make any other kind?" -- The Couch) is that we now
live in a climate where there's a ghoulish appetite to transform every act of
terror and murder into a useful plot point in a political narrative. This is a
bipartisan phenomenon, and while I think you could make the case that the Left
is worse (in fact, I will in just a minute), it's silly to deny that we don't
do the same thing. Moreover, given where we are as a country, it is
unavoidable. This sort of thing is too seductive. The Left desperately wants
every terrorist attack to be conducted by Rush Limbaugh's biggest fan, so it's
impossible not to cheer when the Left is disappointed. And given the
outrageous double standards that the Left -- and the elite
"responsible" media -- use to demonize the Right, the urge to throw
it back their face is irresistible. (From The Goldberg File—worth subscribing
to from NRO. ~Bob)

Excerpt: A Chinese vessel
that ran into a protected coral reef in the southwestern Philippines
held evidence of even more environmental destruction inside: more than 22,000
pounds of meat from a protected species, the pangolin or scaly anteater.

Excerpt: In America, all
atrocities are not equal: Minutes after the Senate declined to support
so-called gun control in the wake of the Newtown massacre, the president rushed
ill-advisedly on air to give a whiny, petulant performance predicated on the
proposition that one man’s mass infanticide should call into question the
constitutional right to bear arms. Simultaneously, the media remain terrified
that another man’s mass infanticide might lead you gullible rubes to question
the constitutional right to abortion, so the ongoing Kermit Gosnell trial in
Philadelphia has barely made the papers — even though it involves large numbers
of fully delivered babies who were decapitated and had their feet chopped off
and kept in pickling jars.

Excerpt: One of the Chechen
terrorists who carried out the Boston Marathon bombings should have been
deported years ago after a criminal conviction, as called for by U.S.
immigration law. Tamerlan Tsarnaev, the 26-year-old killed in a wild shootout
with police, was a legal U.S.
resident who nevertheless should have been removed from the country after a
2009 domestic violence conviction, according to a Judicial Watch source.
(Better those people die than some bureaucrat be charged with Islamophobia.
~Bob)

Excerpt: Miraculously the
border between Mexico and Arizona has suddenly
been declared substantially free of illegal crossers. Having announced last
year that more illegal entrants had been caught and deported, the Department of
Homeland Security recently has noted that the illegal immigration that
previously had been such a problem for Arizona was now far reduced. Without
questioning the actual statistics — which certainly could be done — the real
issue is the political implication of these claims for the currently
contemplated immigrant legalization programs. (The writer of this piece is a
good friend, and often writes zingers for American Spectator. This is one such
zinger. He has served in intelligence, lives not far from the border, and he
knows of what he writes. With 2014 looming as a make-or-break election
year, this kind of word must get out often as possible. Even to Rubio's office.
Ever, Chet. Chet is a friend, blog reader, Naval Aviator, Former CIA agent and
the author of the excellent thrillers The Iran Covenant and The
Woolsorter’s Plague. ~Bob.)

Excerpt: This is a 1.30 min short
video of Egyptian Muslims attacking a women, they believe to be Christian!
No proof requested! (Our support of the Arab Spring is destroying Egyptian
Coptic Christianity. Never forget what our own despicable traitors in WashingtonDC
did to this woman and thousands of her fellow Christians. --Don Hank)

Excerpt: Democrats enjoy a
supermajority in the Illinois House of Representatives, holding 71 seats to the
GOP's 47. On Wednesday, the same day the US Senate voted down gun control
legislation, powerful Democrat Speaker Michael Madigan tried to push a
restrictive gun control measure through his chamber. The result was an open revolt
by downstate Democrats, with almost half the Democrat caucus joining the GOP to
kill the measure. The bill went down 31-76, a rare defeat for the legendary
Madigan.

Excerpt: The Vice President of
Egypt’s Freedom & Justice Party today linked the Islamic Jihad in Boston to the broader
issues and strategies of the global Islamic Movement. Speaking about the events
in Boston Essam al-Erian stated in an interview, “This series of events
began with the sending of French battalions to Mali in a war against organizations
that are said to belong to al Qaeda.” He links all acts of jihad together as
being part of one great war. Are they? And is what America
experienced in Boston
just one battle in a much larger war? (Former Marine Officer and counter terrorism
expert for the FBI. And we give Egypt fighter jets... ~Bob)

These Soldiers Did the BostonMarathon Wearing 40-Pound Packs. Then They Helped Save
Lives.

Excerpt: At 5:20 a.m. on
Monday, four hours before the Boston Marathon's elite runners took off, a group
of 15 active-duty soldiers from the Massachusetts National Guard gathered at
the starting line in Hopkinton. Each soldier was in full combat
uniform and carried a "ruck," a military backpack weighing about 40
pounds. The rucks were filled with Camelbacks of water, extra uniforms,
Gatorade, changes of socks—and first-aid and trauma kits. It was all just
supposed to be symbolic. … "You never think you're gonna need it, but you
always have to have a contingency plan," says Lieutenant
Stephen Fiola of the 1060th Transportation Company, who
worked with the Military Friends Foundation to organize the march.

Is this the mosque that the BostonMarathon Muslim terrorists are alleged to have attended?

Excerpt: On May 22, 2010,
Massachusetts Governor Deval Patrick embraced the radical leadership of the
Muslim American Society (MAS), including Imam Abdullah Faarooq who told
followers they must “pick up the gun and the sword” in response to the arrests
of local Islamic extremist Aafia Siddiqui and terror suspect Tarek Mehanna.

Many Thanks, But Just Wait

As we each in our own
way mourn the victims of the most recent Muslim terrorists, watch and
wait to see how quickly our citizenry will forget the unwavering bravery of the
police involved. Many of us have no contact with our police and have no idea
what they have to deal with each and every day. We've all heard of isolated
police abuses. But, where I live we have the most professional police force
that anyone could wish for, and any abuse is swiftly dealt with. They all face
uncountable dangers every day without complaint, as do the police throughout
the nation. Our President will never denounce these terrorist acts as
being part and parcel of a world-wide Muslim assault against the "Great
Satan", our country which has been so accepting of every person and group
for hundreds of years. It's hard to believe that we've gotten to the stage
where we willingly bring people like this into our nation. And, despite our
laws having been broken,http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/3009899/posts?page=1,
are unwilling to deport them. Had our DHS followed the law none of this would
have happened. Someone needs to take the blame on this one, but you can guess
who will not. Regards, --Rod

Eminent bioethicist Leon Kass on
the dangers of a world increasingly indifferent to matters of human
dignity. The trial of Kermit Gosnell—a Philadelphia doctor charged in January 2011
with, among other things, murdering seven infants who survived abortions he
performed—has been under way for a month. But it was only last week that the
case was thrust into the national spotlight. Thanks to intense pressure from
conservative critics of the media's apparent lack of interest in the case, the
rest of the country has now glimpsed some of what went on for years in
Gosnell's benignly named Women's Medical Society. Investigators who raided the
clinic in 2010 saw "blood on the floor" and smelled "urine in
the air," according to the grand jury that indicted Gosnell. They also
found "fetal remains haphazardly stored throughout the clinic—in bags,
milk jugs, orange-juice cartons, and even in cat-food containers." Members
of Gosnell's staff testified that the abortionist would deliver babies who had
been gestating for as long as 30 weeks, far longer than the 24-week limit
imposed by Pennsylvania
law. Gosnell or staff members would gouge the infant's neck with scissors to
sever the spinal cord, according to the grand jury report. Gosnell referred to
the method as "snipping.

Selected Boston
Bomber tweets forwarded to me, thanks to George

“To all of you, who in the
“Guess The Religion” pool that had, “Buddhist”, “Jew"," Episcopal”,
“Catholic”, “Southern Baptist”, “Unitarian”, or “Druid”…. Sorry. Better luck
next time!

@exposeliberals If Bill Ayers
had a son he’d look like Dzhokhar Tsarnaev

Excerpt: Chechnya is a majority Sufi Islamic nation, but
ultra-conservative Wahhabism has been gaining strength in recent years and
sending a wave of violence and fear throughout Chechnya. Wahhabis believe in the
literal interpretation of the Qur’an. The majority Wahhabi state of Saudi Arabia
produced the 9/11 terrorists and Osama Bin Ladin. The Saudi government is
also funding Wahhabi schools in the United States. This has been a
concern of those following the issue, mainly because textbooks from the schools
teach violent and racist Islamic doctrine.

Excerpt: 1) A few days ago,
we were hearing that the Boston Marathon bombers COULD BE conservative, which
proved that the Right is evil. Now, when we know that the terrorists are
Muslims, how can the same liberals be saying that it means nothing?

Excerpt: Watching the news about
the Boston bombing and the Muslim fanatics who perpetrated the deed, I cannot
help reflect on all the nasty attacks that liberals and progressives and Muslim
activists have conducted against conservatives who have attempted to warn
Americans that their enemies are religious fanatics driven by an apocalyptic
hatred of us because we are Jews, Christians, atheists, democrats – in a
word, infidels.

Excerpt: Looks like it’s time for
the Associated Press to give back its Pulitzer Prize. Just as it’s time for
politicians — and especially the press — to stop chewing on Police Commissioner
Ray Kelly’s leg over the NYPD’s so-far-enormously-successful anti-terrorist
surveillance programs. Knock wood on the “successful” part, of course. If
America has learned anything about terrorism since 9/11, it’s that the threat
is incessant, though hugely unpredictable as to source, specific motivation and
any given terrorist’s tool kit of choice.

Excerpt: This always happens:
every time there is a jihad terror attack or foiled plot, the mainstream media
fills up with stories about Muslims worrying about a "backlash." The
"backlash" never materializes. In reality, the stream of stories
about fears of "backlash" are designed to deflect attention away from
the jihad attack and onto Muslims as victims, who as victims ought to be exempt
from scrutiny and accountability (even though no U.S. mosque or Islamic school
has any program designed to teach against the al-Qaeda version of Islam that
they ostensibly reject). In reality, as David J. Rusin noted in National Review last January, "a detailed
analysis of FBI statistics covering ten full calendar years since the 9/11
terrorist attacks reveals that, on a per capita basis, American Muslims,
contrary to spin, have been subjected to hate crimes less often than other
prominent minorities.

Excerpt: The information is
pouring in now that the two Boston Marathon terrorists have been identified and
the primary question on news and radio has been, “how could these boys have
become so radicalized in this country?” Really? Are you kidding me? How are
these so-called journalists missing one of the major pieces of the
puzzle? They need to do a little research into where these two went to
school and who their teachers were.

TexasSchool Counselor ‘Relieved Of All Duties’ Over
Shockingly Racist Post After Fertilizer Explosion: ‘Whites…Soon Will Be Wiped
From The Earth

Excerpt: The man whose brief life
on the lam paralyzed Boston
clung to life today as investigators waited for a chance to ask him why he and
his brother attacked the Boston Marathon. Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, 19, was in BethIsraelDeaconessMedicalCenter today. … One
focus of the probe so far is a six month trip Tamerlan Tsarnaev took to the
semi autonomous Russian province
of Dagestan in 2012. Dagestan has become a hotbed of militant Islamic
activity. (Okay with me if he dies and saves us the cost of the trial and
lifetime care. Unlike the media and Obama, I know why he did it. Same reason as
Maj. Nidal Hasan—Sudden Jihad Syndrome. ~Bob.)

Excerpt: The California state legislature passed a bill
Thursday approving $24 million to expedite the confiscation of the estimated
40,000 handguns and assault weapons illegally owned by Californians. (They are
not “illegal guns.” They are “undocumented self protection devices.” ~Bob.)

Excerpt: "Andrea Kramer,
a Cambridge attorney whose sons attended CambridgeRindge & LatinSchool with suspect Dzhokhar
Tsarnaev, emphasized the diversity of the Cambridge community as its "strength and
beauty." She said her children and their friends celebrated the fact
that so many in the area had roots in other parts of the world.
"[Dzhokhar] wasn't 'them.' He was 'us.' He was Cambridge. This is something that
happened here. The kids are trying to make sense of it. They're frustrated at
people talking about him as a foreigner, because he was Cambridge," she said while under
lockdown in her home. (Andrea Kramer is an idiot. Read down and see why Hugh
Fitzgerald is my new hero...George)

Excerpt: As new
whistle-blowers emerge and Congress tells CIA staffers to lawyer up, a grieving
father demands to know how and why his son died and why no one in the
administration wants to talk to him. As long as we're on the subject of finding
the terrorists responsible for killing U.S.
citizens on American soil, the father of a former Navy SEAL killed in Benghazi last September
was on Capitol Hill Wednesday to urge support of a special committee to
investigate the attacks. (They're still going with the tactic of ignore it long
enough and it will go away. But thank heavens for the parents of the murdered,
demanding that the promises made to them be kept. If only we could get the MSM
to actually act like objective news organizations and give the coverage
that this mess really deserves. --Del)

Excerpt: In the minutes after
the shooting, three individuals were shot by an unknown assailant. None of the
injuries were described as life-threatening. Approximately seven gunshots were
heard shortly before 5pm, less than an hour after the rally's keynote address
completed. (I guess not everyone was mellowed out. – LLW)

Excerpt: It is a bad idea to
demonize your opponents with epithets such “shameful” and “lying,” given that
the case was not made that proposed gun-control legislation would have
prevented a Sandy Hook. To prevent these
school-shooting horrors might require either armed guards in schools, or
Draconian new laws about gratuitous screen and video-game violence, or more
frequently incarcerating the mentally unstable, or, on the theory of reducing
rapid rates of fire, confiscating millions of previously sold semi-automatic
handguns and rifles. All those measures would have offended millions across the
political spectrum in ways that demonizing the NRA apparently does not.

If blacks can criticize whites,
then whites should be able to say the inner city “needs to get its act
together.” That was the bottom line of “Being
White in Philly,” a controversial article written by Robert Huber and
published in Philadelphia Magazine. What followed was predictable. Philadelphia
Mayor Michael Nutter said the article was a “sin” and an “incitement to extreme
reaction.” The mayor called upon the Philadelphia Human Relations Commission to
“rebuke” the magazine and Huber. (The writer didn’t understand. The mayor is
concerned about black on black violence. Mentioning Black on white violence is
racist—the facts too often are. Which is why everyone has heard of Trayvon
Martin, almost no one of Chris Cervini. ~Bob.

Excerpt: Sources cite
"disputes with network executives". No kidding. Why, I couldn't
possibly imagine what these "specific issues" might be. Just for
fun, let's take a look at Sharyl's recent highlight reel of investigative
journalism. She took the lead on investigating the Fast & Furious scandal while the
rest of the media including her own network, were seemingly uninterested. She
was even screamed at by
a White House spokesman over her coverage of the story.

Excerpt: Arizona,
land of the "old America",
is under constant assault by the "new America". You see, Arizonans,
though three thousand miles away, still hear the peels of liberty from the
Liberty Bell, perhaps far better than those who now dwell in Philadelphia. We place greater value on a
Constitution written some 230 years ago, perhaps more so than those who live
just steps away from Freedom Hall. We don't enact gun laws that serve no
purpose except to take guns out of the hands of law abiding citizens. And we're
more than willing to use those guns to protect our home and our families.

Excerpt: He posted a YouTube
clip from radical Muslim cleric Feiz Mohammad, who once claimed that women who
were raped had been asking for it. He also posted a playlist on YouTube that
included a song called, “I will dedicate my life to Jihad.’’ On an amazon.com wish list created
in 2007, Tsarnaev didn’t even try to hide that he might be up to something
nefarious in the future. (Nothing they could do, though, Stopping him before
the bombings would have been Islamophobic. ~Bob)

Excerpt: An Illinois
teenager who was friends with a man charged last year with trying to bomb a Chicago bar was arrested at an airport on his way to try
to join a terrorist group in war-torn Syria, the FBI said
Saturday. (Why didn't he just go to the gym and get in his exercise if he
wanted to go on jihad? Hamas-linked CAIR's ridiculous #MyJihad campaign
originated in Chicago
-- how did Abdella Ahmad Tounisi not get the memo that jihad was just blowing
bubbles in the park? –Robert Spencer,)

Excerpt: Suspected Boston
Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev attended a Massachusetts
mosque that made a controversial deal with a Boston
city agency that allowed it to buy land at a lower-than-market price in
exchange for various token services to the Boston community, despite the mosque’s links
to some radical anti-American figures. (If you don’t pay them Jiyra, they will
kill us, ~Bob.)

Excerpt: You won't find flowers or
garden gnomes in AJ Duncan's front yard. But you will find a clothing line
filled with carpet shoes he says drug smugglers wear to cover their tracks,
along with a pile of backpacks and blankets, and more than 400 black water
jugs. They are all items Duncan
has found over the last year and a half, while hiking through his beloved
desert. "There are millions of backpacks and blankets," Duncan says. "I've
been out here 48 years and I can't see half my desert anymore."

Excerpt: The Obama administration
was starting a process Friday aimed at removing barriers in health privacy laws
that prevent some states from reporting information to the background check
system. The action comes two days after the Senate rejected a measure that
would have required buyers of firearms online and at gun shows to pass a
background check. … The Health and Human Services Department on Friday was
beginning to ask for public comment on how the Health Insurance Portability and
Accountability Act, passed by Congress in 1996 and known as HIPAA, is
preventing some states from reporting to the background check system and how to
address the problem.

Tale of two terrorists: Columbia
job for Boston
bomber? By John M. Murtagh

Excerpt: Perhaps Monday’s
bomber will be offered a teaching job at ColumbiaUniversity.
Forty-three years ago last month, Kathy Boudin, now a professor at Columbia but
then a member of the Weather Underground, escaped an explosion at a bomb
factory operated in a townhouse in Greenwich Village.

Excerpt: At some point refusing to be terrorized looks a lot
like refusing to pay attention to what terrorism is. After September 11 the
government encouraged everyone to get back out there and shop. The message now
is take in an interfaith service and then visit your local mosque for a
sanitized tour that explains how peaceful Islam really is. There’s a lot of
talk about finishing the marathon and MoveOn.orging on our way past the
unpleasantness. But there are two standards on being terrorized. When a
mentally ill man shoots up a school, then everyone is obligated to be
terrorized all the time.

Excerpt: The FBI was last night hunting a 12-strong
terrorist “sleeper cell” linked to the Boston marathon
bomb brothers. Police believe Tamerlan and Dzhokhar Tsarnaev were
specially trained to carry out the devastating attack. More than 1,000 FBI
operatives were last night working to track down the cell and arrested a man
and two women 60 miles from Boston in the hours before Dzhokhar’s dramatic
capture after a bloody shootout on Friday.

Excerpt: This has not been a good week for President Obama.
I think it will not be the worst week of this year or this term, which I
predict will get worse as his own personality flaws and patently partisan
strategies make his lame-duck term even more impotent than is usually the case.